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Meiselas: This is a breaking news alert. There is no trade deal between Canada and the United States. As I’ve always said, you can’t do any deal with bad people. And Donald Trump is a fraud, and the people he surrounds himself with are frauds and bad people.
This is JD Vance's BFF and CPC MP Jamil Jivani, now in full campaign mode to replace Skippy McSlogan as the leader of the CPC.
FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦@fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 11h agoJivani blames Carney and Ford, natch.
Canadians say public health can meet the needs of Canadians if governments invest more into it They strongly disagree with the idea that corporations and doctors should have unrestricted ability to charge patients for healthcare
2/2 It’s long past time to cancel the Canada-Israel free trade agreement, issue sanctions, and use every diplomatic tool at our disposal to rein in this rogue state. Anything less is a green light for Israel to continue killing civilians with impunity.
Running an anti-corruption campaign is the winner @ontariondp.bsky.social and @maritstilesndp.bsky.social are too stupid and lazy to pull it off let alone figure it out. Ffs
John Bowker@johnbowker.bsky.social · 23h agoUPDATE: during the Ford government’s “rigorous evaluation & assessment,” executives of the selected company paid thousands of dollars to attend cash-for-access fundraisers with the premier and the minister overseeing the public land sale www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news... #onpoli
UPDATE: during the Ford government’s “rigorous evaluation & assessment,” executives of the selected company paid thousands of dollars to attend cash-for-access fundraisers with the premier and the minister overseeing the public land sale www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news... #onpoli
Lead of controversial Muskoka proposal paid $1,000 to PCs to dine with premier while working to acquire land from province
He said political fundraiser ticket purchases were ‘personal, lawful, and unrelated to Cliff Bay’
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John Bowker@johnbowker.bsky.social · 2w agoAfter what it calls a “rigorous evaluation and assessment,” the Ford government sold publicly-owned Muskoka land, reportedly with the promise of an MZO, to a mysterious company led by a PC donor who is accused of fraud by Vaughan condo buyers www.thestar.com/real-estate/... #onpoli
A reminder that Caruso is... Not an immigrant. Not a Black or brown person. Not a drag queen. Not trans. A 67-year-old white male MAGA Republican married father of seven & appointed by Ron DeSantis. Every MAGA Accusation Is A Confession. 2/2
The federal government has already abandoned the digital services tax on US tech giants, eliminated most of our counter-tariffs, continued buying American military equipment, and aligned our foreign policy with the Trump administration. Yet Canada got next to nothing in return. (3/4)
Canadians want a resolution to the trade war with the United States. However, some concerning details are emerging about the upcoming trade deal. It seems the Liberal government is making concessions that undermine Canadian autoworkers, dairy farmers, and steelworkers. (1/4)
This data centre fight is bigger than just Hamilton. It's a fight for the future of our communities, our water, and our land. It's time to take our power back from the tech billionaires and their friends in Ford's government.
Reminds me of Carney lol: “The playbook of AI data centre proponents follows the familiar pattern of any good high-pressure sales pitch: make a lot of claims that municipalities are under-equipped to verify, while instilling a sense of urgency around the project.”
patatas@its.small.patatas.ca · yesterdayOp-ed from ya bois AI data centres face waves of municipal resistance — for good reason www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/08/21/o... @nicktsergas.ca #CdnPoli
According to a Senate of Canada brief, for every gallon of water used to cool US datacentres, 12.4 gallons were used to cool those datacentres’ power plants. Closed-loop can sleight-of-hand water usage away from the datacentres to the power plants. @its.small.patatas.ca @cdnaffairs.bsky.social
Op-Ed: AI data centres face waves of municipal resistance — for good reason
Responsible municipalities are taking the time to develop guardrails before saying 'yes' to AI data centres
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They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)
Chance the Lawyer@chancethelawyer.bsky.social · yesterdaysay what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
'mere' authoritarians seek to capture the state & a few key sectors for fascists, every institution must brought low & made complicit in the new social order
This Electric Shock Glove Was Invented for Police in the 1930s to 'Incite Fear' https://gizmodo.com/this-electric-shock-glove-was-invented-for-police-in-the-1930s-to-incite-fear-2000799660
This Electric Shock Glove Was Invented for Police in the 1930s to 'Incite Fear'
Police complained that people often fight back when they're being beaten with clubs.
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Commentary: Japan's response to the U.S. campaign against the ICC is emerging as a critical test of its long‑standing commitment to international justice and a rules‑based order.
The time to defend the International Criminal Court is now
Despite reticence to confront destabilizing U.S. behavior, there are risks to Japan’s interests and wider support for the ICC should it choose not to firmly respond.
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1/ Canadians should be able to trust that public ads from our government are accurate. But this summer, the Liberals rolled out ads to mislead Canadians about their climate record.
And now, the video of “Darth Vader”on why he wants Flock in San Diego. Read the full story here: www.404media.co/darth-vader-...
404 Media@404media.co · 2d ago"The emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum," Vader said during the meeting.
"The Green Party of England and Wales is calling for a 38% windfall tax on the profits of big banks ...The idea was floated by the campaign group Positive Money, which estimated it would raise £19bn a year." www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... Add your name to #TaxTheBanks 💰👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
Greens call for windfall tax on big banks' profits to support small business
Zack Polanski says profits over £800m should be taxed to cut tax bills for a million smaller companies.
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Sovereignty resides in the peoples of the Americas, not in any single State or man above the rest. broadbentinstitute.ca/panamerican-...
Panamerican Parliamentary Leaders United Against Return of Monroe Doctrine - Broadbent Institute
35 legislators from nine countries, including government officials from Canada, Brazil, and Chile, sign a historic declaration in defense of sovereignty and against the “hemispheric coercion” of the D...
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Oh, look, there's Mark Carney, selling us out again.
AI critic Connor Leahy calls for governments to “criminalize the creation of superintelligence the same way that it is illegal to build a nuclear bomb.”
What Is AI Superintelligence? Why Critics Warn Against Developing Such Technology
Sixty-nine-year-old Wynd Kaufmyn, a retired teacher from Berkeley, California, is believed to be the first person imprisoned for protesting the development of artificial intelligence, after she and ot...
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Europe heatwaves: Germany and Spain report over 18,000 heat-related deaths this summer
Europe heatwaves: Germany and Spain report over 18,000 heat-related deaths this summer
Germany's public health authority said around 9,600 of its 14,000 heat-related deaths occurred in one late June week. Spain's public health institute reported 4,458 such deaths from June 1 to August 19, the most for the period since 2022.
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No corporation anywhere exists to help people. They exist only to extract capital and direct it upwards to the executives, board members and shareholders. Corporations are the emminence front of the caustic captialist greed ideology, and that is all they are: wealth engines by and for the wealthy.
Doctors in Gaza are amputating children's limbs without anesthesia because Israel blocked the pain medication. A doctor told Ms. Rachel mothers now play her videos during those amputations to distract the kids.
What kinda fool writes this apologist crap?? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | Hoekstra's missteps in Canada are mild compared to some of Trump's ambassadors | CBC News
Pete Hoekstra's issues in Canada, which led over 200,000 Canadians to sign a petition calling for his ouster, are relatively mild when compared to some of the scandals other U.S. ambassadors have prov...
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